Hey everyone,
Need help with a weird case on my site Site Hidden By Admin. It’s a 14-week-old travel reference site – airline rules, connection times, packing lists, etc.
Problem:
On July 4 around 11:00, Google Search impressions dropped 97% in just one hour. From 350-600/hour to 10-20/hour.
Daily impressions: 13k → 6.5k → 600 → almost 0 now. Clicks: 75-80/day → 0-1.
It’s site-wide and global. US traffic 9k/day → 0. All top pages dropped the same way.
What I checked:
- No Manual Action in GSC. No Security Issues.
- Pages still “URL is on Google” and indexed.
site:command shows pages. - Pages return 200, robots.txt fine, sitemap 0 errors, canonicals correct.
- Bing/DuckDuckGo traffic is normal. Only Google organic dropped.
- No DMCA on Lumen, no email notice.
- No Google update on July 4. June spam update ended June 26.
My question:
If there’s no manual action and everything is technically fine, why would Google stop serving the site completely in 1 hour?
Has anyone seen this? Is this a false positive spam classifier? How do I get Google to review this?
Thanks in advance.